**** me, I remember plastering 'Army Be The Best' stickers all over HMS OCEAN some years ago and I even managed to stick a sticker in the lift of MOD Main Building showing support for Armed Forces Day last week. Are plod really that **** and humourless that they would launch a miconduct investigation by the Directorate of Professional Standards? Bloody hell boys, get a sense of reality.

**** me, I remember plastering 'Army Be The Best' stickers all over HMS OCEAM some years ago and I even managed to stick a sticker in the lift of MOD Main Building showing support for Armed Forces Day last week.

major sense of humour failure. a little joke has turned into a police investigation. what a load of shit.

when out on the piss on saturday nights we used to have a competition of who could get the old circular yellow and green TA - BE THE BEST stickers in the most impressive place in town. left the town covered in TA stickers very high up lamp posts, on toilet cisterns, or on illuminated beer taps (where it normally shows which beer you're drinking). looks like we were all very lucky not to get investimagated.

Jack from HMS Scarborough (or rather several of them) painted "UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE ROYAL NAVY" in bfo white paint letters on the main runway at Gan the night before the Crabs had AoC's inspection.

when out on the piss on saturday nights.....circular yellow and green TA - BE THE BEST stickers........ left the town covered in TA stickers very high up lamp posts, on toilet cisterns, or on illuminated beer taps (where it normally shows which beer you're drinking). looks like we were all very lucky.

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Looks like you ***** had a tough weekend training. No wonder you STAB ******* are useless mongs.

Hardly surprising. This is exactly the kind of attitude that is filtering down from the top. It's very likely symptomatic of Bernard Hogan-Howe's "Total(itarian) Policing" strategy, which has shown itself to be little more than management-by-ultimatum. At a very early stage in his tenure, he made a very obvious point of gripping his senior management, not by being inspirational, encouraging or innovative, but by being something of an old-fashioned bully. The climate of fear generated by his 'northern hard man' style of management naturally gravitates downwards and it is unsurprising that the result is a loss of perspective and over-reaction.

He has, so far, shown himself to be possessed of an unimaginative and humourless style of leadership that has always been common in the Met. In his case, however, it's more of the same... but harder.

major sense of humour failure. a little joke has turned into a police investigation. what a load of shit.

when out on the piss on saturday nights we used to have a competition of who could get the old circular yellow and green TA - BE THE BEST stickers in the most impressive place in town. left the town covered in TA stickers very high up lamp posts, on toilet cisterns, or on illuminated beer taps (where it normally shows which beer you're drinking). looks like we were all very lucky not to get investimagated.

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I thought you'd fucked off or were dead!..............Shame I'm wrong on both counts!